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To HireAHelper Move Helpers: Paying Tribute to Our Founding Fathers

Crazy Tuesday (the Tuesday after Memorial Day) ushers in the moving industry’s officially crazy season. With that you’ll likely be way too busy taking care of today and tomorrow to think about yesterday and yesteryear and everything that happened to bring us all to this point in moving history.

That’s okay. We’ve got some historical highlights to make us all appreciate how good we have it now. Seriously. Really. We don’t have to scour the land for fuel. We don’t need a protective convoy. In the grand scheme of things, despite all the paperwork and all the headaches and all the sneaky folks running around, we are living in the Golden Age of Moving.

One situation involves corporate movers in New York City, the other involves guys in pickups moving furniture in Austin, Texas. One is a product of the traditional stance of the labor unions, the other is a child of the shared-economy and a smartphone app. One issue is political, the other governmental.

“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.” – James Cash Penney

Photo Credit to Martin Burns

America, as we all have heard, is the land of the free. America is also a nation, not of men, but of laws. The challenge, sometimes, is sorting it all out when these two ideas collide.

When Raleigh Bruner of Wildcat Moving LLC tried to open up operations in the Lexington, Kentucky area he ran into a roadblock in the form of a state law that ‘essentially gave moving companies a veto over new competition.’